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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






2. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.






3. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.






4. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






5. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






6. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






7. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.






8. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






9. The selection of words in a literary work.






10. The conversation of characters in a literary work.






11. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






12. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






13. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.






14. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.






15. A character struggles against some outside force.






16. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.






17. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






18. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






19. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.






20. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






21. The organizational form of a literary work.






22. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






23. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






24. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






25. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






26. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






27. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






28. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






29. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.






30. A poem that tells a story.






31. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






32. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






33. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






34. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.






35. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






36. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.






37. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






38. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.






39. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






40. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






41. The series of events that make up a story or drama.






42. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






43. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






44. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






45. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






46. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.






47. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






48. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






49. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.






50. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.